Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel : pendulous, (10 to) 20-30mm long
- Ovary : cylindrical, 5-9mm long x 2.5-3mm wide
- Tube color : red
- Tube shape : cylindrical
- Tube dimensions : 10-15mm long x 3-5mm wide
- Sepal color upper : red
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape :
- Sepal tips : spreading at anthesis
- Sepal dimensions : 18-26mm long x connate at the base for 2-6mm, free lobes 3.5-5mm wide at the base
- Corolla opening color : violet
- Corolla mature color :
- Corolla shape : broadly obovate
- Corolla silhouette :
- Petal margins :
- Corolla dimensions : 12-17mm long x 8-12mm wide
- Nectary : 3-5mm high
- Stamens :
- Filaments : red, 40-45mm x 32-40mm long
- Anthers : red-purple, 3-3.5mm long x 1-1.5mm wide,
- Pistil :
- Style : red, loosely pilose in lower half
- Stigma : 2-3mm long x 1-1.5mm wide, exserted 15-20mm beyond the anthers
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single
- Flowers : glabrous and solitary in upper leafaxils,
- Flower size :
- Flower display :
- Flower bud :
- Fruit : subcylindrical, more-or-less four-angled, 13-18mm long x 7-10mm wide, purple when ripe
- Seed : oblong-triangular, 1.4-1.8mm long x 0.8-2m wide
- Habit : erect to scandent shrubs or climbers in trees to five meters above ground
- Hardiness:
- Height : 1-3 m
- Light/Climate :
- Optimal light conditions :
- Remarks : flowers occur mainly from November to March
- Named :
- Lookalikes :
- Year (of first description) : 1989
- Botanist : Berry P.E.
- Authors : Berry 1989
- Original publication : Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 76: 559 1989
- Habitat : low forests on limestone or sandstone outcrops, in the planalto to the north and west of Curitiba, Paraná
- Elevation : 950-1150
- Native country : Brazil
- Synonyms :
- Gametic chromosome number n = 22
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : mostly opposite, occasionally in whorls of three to four, firmly membranous to subcoriaceous, petioles wine purple, (2 to) 3 to 6 (to7) mm long, 1 to 2 mm thick, canaliculate above, at times making a marked angle at the junction with the midvein, stipules narrowly triangular, 1 to 1.7 mm long, 0.6 to 1.2 mm wide, adjacent ones occasionally fused, semideciduous
- Foliage color upper side : sublustrous dark green, glabrous, except for small tufts of hairs 0.8 to 1 mm long at the base of the lower midvein in some plants
- Foliage color lower side : pale green, glabrous
- Leaf dimensions : generally three times longer than wide, 3-7.5(-11.0)cm long x 0.8-2.5(-3.0)cm wide
- Leaf shape : narrowly lance-ovate
- Leaf margin : remotely gland-denticulate
- Leaf tip : attenuate to acuminate
- Leaf base : rounded to narrowly subcordate
- Pubescence :
- Veins : secondary veins 5-6(-7) per side
- Stems :
- Branches : branchlets glabrous, dull purple, older branches ascending on small shrubs or decumbent in large or climbing plants